Round 8: Veni Vidi Vici. After the death of Crassus at Carrhae, the remaining two strong men of Rome, Caesar and Pompey inevitably fought for supremacy. Even with the death of Pompey in the aftermath of the battle of Pharsalus in 48BC, the war went on. But in the end, Caesar’s military star shone too bright for his enemies.

------------------------Zela 47 BC

Pharnaces surprised Caesar by launching an assault uphill. Caesar’s centre of 2 legions were made up of weaker locally raised troops. The Bosporans have the initial advantage and need to get to the objective points before being pushed back as the Romans counter attack.

As Caesar’s X legion gained the upper hand on the Pompeians’ left, they shifted one legion from their own right to cover. But their weakened right allowed the Mauritanian cavalry to surge past, into their rear. Seeing the danger, Labienus took his cavalry to intercept. The Pompeian infantry mistaking it as a retreat panicked and started retreating too. For the Pompeians the first line of troops is doomed to be overwhelmed and needs to go down fighting and inflict as much damage as possible on the Caesarians. The rest needs to securely retreat towards Munda to take out the ‘bottlenecks’ markers. The cavalry fight in the rear is an equal fight and can decide the outcome of the battle.